Exchange for a 105
I think even the stand alone boxes allow you to control how much "Darbeeing" it gives you or off also.
Yea right, the GF would kill me. Unfortunately she knows how much the 103D costs and how much the 105 costs and she can do math
AFAIK they do. I've played around with the different modes and different levels of processing. The artifacting drives me insane so I needed to get to a point where it was barely detectable, but then I found it was set too low and I was losing the whole point of having the processing in the first place. So I turned it up to a newly, grudgingly acceptable point and it's been set that way for quite some time now.
Some other thoughts are that it is much more effective during certain scenes than it is others and that the effects are a whole lot more noticeable when you pause and flick it on and off, then when watching in real time. At least to my eyes, which isn't to say that there aren't differences. In the end, I think what made me keep it, other than sheer laziness, was that there was and is a definitive improvement to the image when you compare on to off during paused scenes, and not a minuscule difference once you get it dialed in to an appropriate level. My own problem is that I still have a hard time picking out those differences in real time, which is kind of the whole point, isn't it? This leads to where I'm a bit torn.
The best way I can sum up my feelings are like this: If I were to do it over again, I'd probably buy the 103D again. OTOH, if someone were to offer me a NIB 103 and $100, I'd probably take the trade. Whatever that means.
